Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – 2025 marks the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Glorieta Pass, a famous Civil War battle that took place in New Mexico. Celebrity Historian Raffi Andonian speaks on the battle.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Bowdoin College - Maine's oldest -- was chartered in 1794 when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. One of its most famous alumni is today Brunswick's most beloved former resident, the late Col.

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

The battles, which resulted in the deaths of 49 American militia members, are considered the first of the Revolutionary War. Reenactments ... institutions and civil liberties while undermining ...

His famous “March to the Sea” employed scorched-earth ... worked as an engineer before enlisting with the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War. After fighting in battles at Antietam and ...

Along the way, Rienzi became so famous ... war effort. Whatever its literary flaws, Read's poem captured one image indelibly — a powerful horse carrying a determined man into battle.

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ... their pay as a clothing allowance. A soldier in the famous 54th Massachusetts Infantry wrote directly to Lincoln ...